And the need for expertise does not stop at the task of informed reaction.
"In the supreme court, that expressly includes the need for expertise in the law and practice in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The relative abundance of AIDS drugs has created greater need for expertise in prescribing the vast number of combinations.
With military dogs playing crucial roles in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for expertise in quickly tending to wounded or sick animals has become imperative.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said the Bush administration was "reviewing how the policies are being implemented and looking at how we can better balance the need for expertise and experience that some Iraqis have with the need for justice".
"These are being built up but there is lots of work to do and there is a need for expertise and they will need lots of help," said Roger Middleton of foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House.
This march toward greater specialization, combined with the pressing need for expertise in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, so-called STEM workers, suggests that the prospects for autistic workers will be on the rise in the coming decades.
"To have both sides understand each other — Asia on the one hand and the United States on the other," he said in a telephone interview from Hong Kong, "there is really the need for expertise from different countries".
The need for expertise and efficiency in industry postponed the egalitarian goals of the Bolshevik Revolution; Stalin denounced "levelers" and instituted systems of reward that established a socioeconomic stratification favouring the technical intelligentsia.
Users are accessing programs and software files that are kept far away in climate-controlled rooms with thousands of computers – or, to quote a propaganda-text on cloud computing: "Details are abstracted from consumers, who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure 'in the cloud' that supports them".
